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Road traffic accidents in Kenya: An epidemiological appraisal
(Nairobi Medical Association of East Africa, 1995)
A descriptive analysis of road traffic accident (RTA) and injury data in Kenya was done using routine accident reports, official statistical abstracts, published and unpublished surveys. The characteristics of injury-producing ...
Evaluation of an advanced breeding population of arabica coffee
(COLLOQUE SCIENTIFIQUE INTERNATIONAL SUR LE CAFE, 1999)
An advanced breeding population of Coffea arabica comprising 32 multiple cross families were preselected in the laboratory for resistance to coffee berry disease (CBD) and evaluated in the field for yield, quality and ...
Evidence of antibiosis resistance to the spotted stemborer, Chilo partellus (Swinhoe) in a maize (Zea mays L.) population
(Cambridge University Press, 1998-09)
S2 line and S2 test-cross recurrent selection procedures were initiated to improve the resistance of a maize (Zea mays L.) population to the spotted stemborer, Chilo partellus (Swinhoe) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Thirty-five ...
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE FOR FOOD, ENERGY AND INDUSTRY pp669-675 1998 James & James (Science Publishers) Ltd Changes in nitrogen related characters in German spring barley
(James & James Science Publishers, 1998)
High costs of fertiliser and environmental implications like ground water pollution are causing a concern to the use of nitrogen. Therefore, the efficient use of nitrogen fertiliser is an important goal in plant breeding ...
Variation for adaptability to dryland conditions in sorghum
(African Crop Science Society, 1996)
African Crop Science Journal Vol.5. No.2, pp.127-138 1997 Variation for adaptability to dryland conditions in sorghum G.O. OMANYA, P.O. AYIECHO and J.O. NYABUNDI Code Number: CS96049 Sizes of Files: Text: 33.9K Graphics: ...
Genetic diversity among isolates of Colletotrichum kahawae causing coffee berry disease
(Association Scientifique Internationale du Café (ASIC) 17th Colloque, Montpellier, France, 1997)
En este trabajo, aislamientos de una conidia de/Colletotrichum kahawae/, se sometieron a un análisis genético usando pruebas de patogenicidad y marcadores de proteínas, isoenzimas y RAPD. Para comparar, se incluyeron las ...
Isozyme variation among Amaranthus cultivars.
(Discovery and Innovation, 1996)
Electrophoretic variation of esterase (Est), peroxidase (Per), phosphoglucoisomerase [glucose-6-phosphate isomerase] (Pgi) and phosphoglucomutase (Pgm) was studied in seven Amaranthus populations, namely, Jumla, F1 Jumla, ...
The rate of outcrossing in grain amaranths
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1991-09-01)
Studies of intra specific and inter specific out crossing rates were carried out for grain amaranths using two populations of A. hypochondriacus (populations 1008 and 1024) and two populations of A. cruentus (populations ...
Ruwenine and ruzorine: Pyrrolizidine alkaloids of Senecio ruwenzoriensis
(Pergamon, 1992-09-01)
A reinvestigation of Kenyan Senecio ruwenzoriensis reported to contain two alkaloids of unknown structures, ruwenine and ruzorine, resulted in the isolation of the pyrrolizidine alkaloid isoline, accompanied by what appeared ...
Errata. Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids from Senecio hadiensis
(American Chemical Society, 1991-09)
17-Oxosparteine (1 mg), -isolupanine (3 mg), and N-methylcytisine (2 mg) were iden- tified by ms and tic comparisons with authentic samples (6,8). Catalytic reduction (2 mg) of 5,6-dehydrolu- panine (4 mg), oil, ms (9) ...